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This test consists of 15 multiple choice questions and 5 short answer questions.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. What does Hobbes say ends a discourse?
(a) A person learns the answer to a question or he/she gives up.
(b) A person grows tired of talking and shuts up.
(c) A person speaks a different language.
(d) A person runs out of anything to say.

2. What does Hobbes call a third law of nature?
(a) habitation
(b) justice
(c) the inevitability of death
(d) security

3. What, left uncontrolled, does Hobbes say can lead to misery and unhappiness?
(a) competition, harmful shyness, and vain glory
(b) hunger, alcohol, and hedonism
(c) personality, education, and drive
(d) pride, sloth, and gluttany

4. What does Hobbes think of using metaphors?
(a) They are useful.
(b) They are improper.
(c) They are never understood.
(d) They cost too much.

5. What does Hobbes say a person is doing when he stops defending himself?
(a) practicing the Golden Rule
(b) doing the right thing
(c) depending on the commonwealth
(d) surrendering his life and his possessions

6. What is a fundamental interest on the part of a counselor?
(a) to get his own way
(b) for the good of those that he counsels
(c) to hide his motives
(d) to deceive the people

7. Why does law need interpretation?
(a) in order to make sure it is not understood
(b) in order to apply it to distinct situations
(c) in order to change its meanings
(d) in order to confuse the public

8. What kinds of questions does Hobbes say people have little interest in?
(a) things that have to do with the supernatural
(b) things that involve faith
(c) things that have no known answers
(d) things that have absolute answers like math and science

9. What happens in an assembly that cannot happen with a monarch?
(a) An assembly wears whatever clothes they want.
(b) A monarch cannot disagree with himself.
(c) A monarch has to listen to the nobles.
(d) An assembly never has to come to a conclusion.

10. How does Hobbes define a monarchy?
(a) In a monarchy, only the nobles hold power.
(b) In a monarchy, only one man has power.
(c) In a monarchy, the assembly holds power.
(d) In a monarchy, all the people hold power.

11. What does Hobbes call reasoning with oneself?
(a) Marking
(b) Impossible
(c) Insanity
(d) Foolish

12. What does Hobbes identify as three basic human fears?
(a) fear of work, being social, and talking too much
(b) fear of the dark, the weather, and wild animals
(c) fear of snakes, spideers, and scorpions
(d) fear of being robbed, raped, or ousted from their homes

13. What is a counselor's disadvantage in speaking only to one man?
(a) He can be misquoted.
(b) He can be interrupted.
(c) He can be more forceful.
(d) He can be attacked.

14. What does Hobbes identify as the two ways one can hold sway over others?
(a) counsel and command
(b) charisma and intelligence
(c) money and gifts
(d) power and control

15. What can a man do when speaking to a group?
(a) stand behind a podium to protect himself
(b) read from a prepared speech
(c) force others to remain silent
(d) use oratory tools to persuade and win over the group

Short Answer Questions

1. How does Hobbes describe his compound imagination?

2. How does Hobbes see the commonwealth?

3. Why can passion for power be dangerous?

4. What is Hobbes' idea about self-protection in natural law?

5. What seems to be a contradiction in Hobbes' attitude toward protest?

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